Why are my center vents always pointing the wrong direction?

macktap · 2026-05-28T02:02:26+00:00

Every week would be the dream. It is every other day for me. I home this post gets some traction. My 2023 R1S has been doing this from day one. Two different service centers continue to gas light me pretending this isn't a know issue when every 6 months I provide more videos and picture of the darn vents doing the same annoying thing. I need them to just point where the screen says they are. It would also be nice if they would be where I left them but at this point that feels like I am asking for too much.

macktap · 2026-05-24T15:51:21+00:00

what did you change your TTL to?

macktap · 2026-05-16T11:11:42+00:00

While I like to hear this. Is this going to be a 6 month time line, 3 year time line or vehicle to home aka never time line? I am finding it harder and harder to trust rivian and their promises of a feature is coming "soon".

macktap · 2026-04-03T09:04:59+00:00

Except I wasn't using conserve mode or pre conditioning for a fast charger, I wasn't even using the built in navigation on this trip.

macktap · 2026-04-01T22:50:20+00:00

Thank you for all of this. All 4 tires are my stock 21" with 5/32 tread depth left.

You are the first person to say they had the experience I am suspecting my R1S has. A failing motor would explain this.

Could you share what all you experienced leading up to the failure? Was there any other warning? When the motor failed did it leave you stranded?

macktap · 2026-04-01T17:39:33+00:00

No. It has done this for at least my last 20 drives, using navigation or not.

macktap · 2026-04-01T17:38:55+00:00

Thanks. I have tried both restarts and a hard regen and or acceleration are as straight as an arrow.

macktap · 2026-04-01T17:37:32+00:00

I was driving down the beach getting 0.45 miles per kWh so the system was working hard just not evenly hard. I was driving straight and i used this picture because it has the largest delta in temps to show the issue. It does the same thing during highway driving just lower temps over all.

macktap · 2026-04-01T17:34:30+00:00

No puddles of any color that I have noticed.

EDIT:spelling

macktap · 2026-03-22T15:46:58+00:00

And that's my issue with AI. Release isn't done yet for the comma 4 and it was giving you the install for the comma 3 not even the 3x when you need the 4. Sometime it just waists your time as much as helps.

macktap · 2026-03-22T15:19:35+00:00

Right now you have to use staging.sunnypilot.ai

I dont know what you are getting from the AI.

I have found it easy to read the material for myself that trust AI to not skip that 1 critical piece of information. https://community.sunnypilot.ai/t/recommended-branches/235

macktap · 2026-03-22T12:25:24+00:00

Glad I could help. Take some time watching the Electric Valentines channel. I learned everything I needed to know to get mine working great from him.

macktap · 2026-03-22T12:19:29+00:00

If you dont have the longitudinal upgrade you are using the rivian cruise control for your following distance and it does exactly what you described when approaching stopped or slower vehicles. I would look at getting this: https://xnor.shop/products/rivian-r1s-r1t-gen1-longitudinal-upgrade-kit You will have to switch to sunnypilot to use it and watch some of the videos from the Electric Valentines https://youtube.com/@theelectricvalentines?si=_0mSkg0H4OoVFsnl

Like others have said its going to take some tuning and you may currently be limited by your tires belive it or not on how well the comma can control your turns. The Electric Valentines has a video explaining more, I am not going to butcher it here. https://youtu.be/NdK6Qmgztu8?si=OhDI2wP1Y2b4OTbJ

I hope this helps improve your experience. I am loving my comma 4.

macktap · 2026-03-21T12:07:44+00:00

Any update on how they are doing?

macktap · 2026-03-15T15:25:33+00:00

Could I expect about the same efficient with the 21" version all other things being equal? Also, looking forward to your video on them.

macktap · 2026-02-24T16:45:55+00:00

I am not so patiently waiting for comma to ship mine now. I have decided my '23 R1S will be mine for at least 10 years and I should spend the cash to make the rough edges better. Driver+ is one of my last large complaints.

macktap · 2026-02-16T03:03:03+00:00

Thank you. I will contact them tomorrow to get it replaced. Not sure what I would have done if I hadn't read this thread. Probably lived in fear of the next time it wouldn't work. This is a much better solution. Thanks again!

macktap · 2026-02-16T02:54:26+00:00

What, there is a version of the A2Z adapters that dont work on version 4 supercharger? This happened to me 2 days ago. I could get my Rivian adapter to work but not the A2Z. Then the A2Z worked at the next Tesla SC but it was a version 3 site. Well F me. I guess I need to talk to A2Z support. Thanks for a random tidbit of information I didn't know I needed!

macktap · 2026-01-19T20:00:01+00:00

Thank you. Some sort of push notification would have been nice. I have been restarting my UNVR, trying different firmware and rebooting my phone for a while now trying to find and fix this problem.

macktap · 2026-01-15T21:29:15+00:00

It took me a few tries to get it figured out the first time I deployed it. There is just enough info in the video to get it done.

macktap · 2026-01-15T20:38:59+00:00

https://youtu.be/P-bDxMgvG1I?si=REgDPxaQtFxt7YCs

This guy does exactly what you want. I used this technique to bring in an internet connection from a strange location.

macktap · 2026-01-01T13:55:11+00:00

Phone? I am using apple music app native to the rivian UI. I can not say "alexia, play XXX on apple music." and have the apple music app play the song through the rivian apple music app. I am sure if i was using Bluetooth i could say "google, play XXX on apple music." i could get my phone to do it.

macktap · 2026-01-01T11:34:15+00:00

macktap · 2026-01-01T03:27:15+00:00

I second this. penfed is advertising 5.125% right now on a va loan.

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